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An enthusiast found out that the new Recall program in Windows 11 does not require neural processing unit (NPU) in the processor. The Recall function is to record everything that happens on the PC for data recovery or retrieval. However, the program did not work on a regular x86-x64 processor, but on a PC with an older Snapdragon 7c+ processor.
According to the official hardware requirements, Recall requires a Copilot+ PC with 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB of storage and an NPU chip with 40+ TOPS performance. Currently, only PCs with Snapdragon X Elite and Plus processors meet these requirements.
Making great progress enabling Recall on current Arm64 hardware, no fancy X Elite in sight! ✨
Should theoretically work on Intel/AMD too, OEMs only received Arm64 specific ML model bundles so there’s not much I can do yet.Here’s a small demo video showing off screenray 🪄 pic.twitter.com/w57fF1LxiN
— Albacore ☁️ (@thebookisclosed) May 23, 2024
On a system with a regular processor, the program did not work because it was trying to load an x64 AI model that does not exist. Therefore, an old computer with an ARM Snapdragon 7c+ processor was needed. The core Recall technology worked successfully on it without a separate NPU chip, although the neural processor is needed for some tasks.
The Recall program is only included in Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.712, which was recently released to testers, but it is hidden. Even if you open Recall, the AI integration will not work since x64 models are not yet available.
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Windows 11 Recall Integration first checks if the PC has an NPU. In the program, if necessary, you can choose which hardware to run the AI on. In the case of this PC with Snapdragon 7c+, Recall relied on the processor.
Recall will be able to run on existing Intel and AMD systems without NPU chips, but will have to wait until x64 AI is released. While NPU is not required for Recall, Microsoft may not want to enable these features for video cards or other hardware capable of processing the model.
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